Cuff-button.



H. R. JOHNSON.

CUFF BUTTON.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 23, 1912.

1,064,91 3, Patented June 17, 1913.

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CUFF-BUTTON.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD R. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in cuif buttons, and the objects of the invention are to provide an improved, simple and strong button of this type, which dispenses with the use of solder in uniting the shank to the button heads, and further to provide a novel shank which has unitary means whereby same may be secured to the heads in a rigid manner, and which will resist and with stand the strains to which the button as a whole is subjected in ordinary usage.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a button constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank from which the shank is formed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the shank in its com pleted state, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail fragmentary sectional view showing the manner of connecting one of the heads of the shank.

A blank of the shape depicted in Fig. 3 of the drawings is struck out from a section of sheet metal to form the shank 1, of the button. The blank is bifurcated at its ends and has a central portion or stem 2 which connects the prongs formed by the bifurcated portions and arranged at each end thereof. One end of the stem 2 is provided with a pair of prongs 3, and the opposite end of the stem is provided with a pair of prongs 4, the latter being of considerably greater size than the prongs 3. As illustrated in Fig. 4: of the drawings, the prongs 3 and 4 are bent outwardly to extend in planes at right angles to the plane of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 23, 1912.

Patented June 17, 1913.

Serial No. 685,697.

stem 2, and have a relatively opposite disposition, that is to say the prongs 3 extend in opposite directions from one another, and the prongs 4 also extend in opposite directions from one another. The outer faces of the prongs are curved as indicated at 5, or otherwise shaped tocause same to conform to the shape of the button heads 6 and 7. The peripheral or marginal edges of the heads 6 and 7 are rolled or swaged about the prongs 3 and 4: as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5 of the drawings. As shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings, the marginal edges of the heads are rolled so as to engage the outer faces of the prongs, the bottom sides, and the inner faces thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent In a cuff botton, a shank consisting of a central stem, a pair of prongs at each end of the stem, and heads having their edges rolled over the outer edges of prongs throughout the lengths of the prongs, the prongs of each pair of prongs being bent in opposite directions to each other and extending on but one side of the stem, the prongs on the same side of the stem extending in opposite directions from each other, one of the two arms of each pair of arms extending from the stem toward one end of the head on one side of the latter, and the other arm extending from the opposite side of the stem toward the opposite end of said head on the opposite side of the latter, whereby two arms engage each head said prongs extending along portions of the peripheries of the heads.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HAROLD It. JOHNSON.

lVitnesses:

ADA E. I-IAGERTY, J. A. MILLER.

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